Eric's review of Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence
Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence (Enterprise) (Enterprise) by Tim Parks
This is a cool book but not nearly as cool as I thought. It was voted one of the best books of the year (2007?) by Economist. This book certainly teaches the reader about the time when it is set - 1400 Florence (and Italy in general). However, I feel as though there have to be better books out there that cover this time period and these characters and their important impact on society via artists, Catholic popes and their control of the city of Florence than this book. And if there isn't a better book out there (perhaps that why the Economist voted it one of the year's best) there ought to be a better book.
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